LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper

Measurements:

20.20 in. (51.31 cm.) (height) by 16.50 in. (41.91 cm.) (width)

Condition:

laid down on support, framed

Provenance:

Private collection, France., Franz Caucig was a pupil of Heinrich Friedrich Füger at the Vienna Academy; in 1779 he studied in Bologna and Rome and after a brief sojourn in Vienna he spent some time in Mantua and in Venice. From 1799 onwards he was professor and councillor; in 1820 he became director of the Vienna Academy. His oeuvre comprises altar paintings and portraits. His predilection however was directed towards ancient mythology and history which he translated into a rigid classicist vocabulary of forms., ,The present drawing may have been a design for a painting which was either abandoned or was never executed. The theme “Hector and Andromeda” was also depicted by Füger in an oil painting (oil on canvas, Compare: Robert Keil, Heinrich Friedrich Füger 1751-1818. Nur wenigen ist es vergönnt das Licht der Wahrheit zu sehen, Vienna 2009, Cat. raisonné No. 116, p. 233.